Kate Beckinsale Shares Emotional Message About the Death of Her Stepfather and Beloved Pet in Thanksgiving Post

Mar. 15, 2025

Kate Beckinsale’s Instagram on Nov. 28, 2024.Photo:Kate Beckinsale/Instagram

Kate Beckinsale/Instagram

Kate Beckinsaletook time on Thanksgiving Day to honor those she’s lost.

TheCanary Blackactress reflected in her caption that it can be difficult “to feel gratitude for what and who you lose and oddly, other people telling you to feel grateful to have your memories is often enraging.”

“But honouring my fallen, my fighting , my deepest loves, feels right today,” she wrote. “Painful but right.”

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In Kate’s Nov. 28 Instagram caption, she thanked her motherJudy Loefor sending her flowers, seen in the video, as well as her own daughter,Lily Sheen, as she pondered the nature of grieving over the holidays.

“Thank you my mama for sending me these beautiful flowers despite all you are going through and to my daughter for making me so proud my breath catches in my throat,” she wrote. “Happy day of being thankful and don’t beat yourself up if you don’t feel grateful. It’s in there.”

source: people.com